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Framing a sustainable and achievable
strategy toward Iran will be a high priority for the next administration. Iran
is a country of intrinsic geopolitical consequence. But four decades of
estrangement between Washington and Tehran have been costly to regional
security, and Iran’s revolutionary leaders still see the United States and its
regional friends as adversaries. Efforts to change the fundamental dynamic in
US-Iranian relations have faltered over the decades, due to mistrust and
misreading of the other’s intentions. The next president has an opportunity to
move the US-Iran relationship in a more positive direction, building on the
Obama administration’s 2015 achievement of a nuclear agreement.

In the sixth Atlantic Council
Strategy Paper, A New Strategy for US-Iran Relations in Transition,
Ellen Laipson presents a new strategy to reduce prospects for a military
confrontation with Iran; improve the regional security environment by working
with trusted partners and with Iran; and, eventually, enable Iran and the
United States to build cooperation in diverse areas of shared concern.

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